Travel to west Africa

west Africa

yellow fever
 no risk: Western Sahara, Algeria, Morocco,north of Mauritania, north of Mali, north of Niger

malaria
fitfortravel edition
no malaria:Morocco,Western Sahara
low risk area: northwest of Mauritania, Algeria

cdc edition
no malaria: Morocco, algeria

chloroquine sensitive:Western Sahara



meningitis

• Epidemics there occur in the dry season (December to June), dying out during the intervening rainy season
• Epidemics usually take place in irregular cycles every 5-12 years
• Serogroup A meningococci account for about 80-85 percent of all cases
• In 2002 there was a major outbreak of meningococcal meningitis in Burkina Faso with about 80 percent of cases due to serogroup W-135

Risk area: south of Gambia, guinea Bissau, Guinea, south of Mali, north of Cote dlvoire, north of Ghana,

polio 
polio endemic area: Nigeria

insect-borne infections 

• Filariasis

The areas in red indicate the geographic distribution of lymphatic filariasis.

• West Nile virus (transmitted by night-biting Culex mosquitoes)

dengue